Education Exams (Educ English) – Page 1

#0. What truth relation is exemplified in this pair if sentence?

Sentence A: The fisherman caught a fish,”

Sentence B: The fisherman caught a milkfish.”

A Sentence A entails Sentence B.
B Sentence A presupposes B.
C Sentence B entails Sentence A
D Sentence B presupposes Sentence A.
Answer: Sentence B entails Sentence A
#1. What is the classification of the morpheme in each of the following linguistic data: INVERT, COVERT, REVERT, SUBVERT, DIVERT?
A Lexical free morpheme
B Grammatical bound morpheme
C Grammatical free morphine
D Lexical bound morpheme
Answer: Lexical bound morpheme
#2. Why does the word “take” when pronounced is different from the words “fake”, “vase” and “thank”?
A All the three expressions have final voiceless stops
B All the three expressions have initial fricative segment
C All the three expressions have final voiced consonant
D All the three expressions have final voiced consonant
Answer: All the three expressions have initial fricative segment
#3. The vowels in the words ”pet”, “but”, “say” and “sew” are ___________.
A [+low]
B [+high]
C [-high] and [-low]
D [+tense]
Answer: [-high] and [-low]
#4. Let’s surveil the place. The morpheme surveil is a example of ___________.
A back formation
B clipping
C derivation
D root creation
Answer: back formation
#5. What is the morphological error in the following sentence: ‘The boys’ in the camp exercise are held in the morning. “?
A The inflectional morpheme is used before the derivational morpheme
B Two derivational morphemes are used in the noun [boy]
C Two inflectional morphemes are used in the head noun of the noun phrase.
D The derivational morpheme is used before the inflectional morpheme
Answer: Two inflectional morphemes are used in the head noun of the noun phrase.
#6. Which of the following is CORRECT?
A A noun in the phrase may have n adjective before it, or a determiner, or may be followed by a prepositional phrase.
B A noun phrase must constitute a determiner, a qualifier or a verb phrase before a head noun
C A noun phrase always have an adjective and a prepositional phrase
D A determiner and a noun are obligatory components of a noun phrase
Answer: A noun in the phrase may have n adjective before it, or a determiner, or may be followed by a prepositional phrase.
#7. In the phrase structure rules, a preposition phrases consist of a preposition followed by a _______.
A clause
B noun
C noun phrase
D objective
Answer: noun phrase
#8. Which is a sense property in which two words have the same sense, or same values for all of their semantic features? Example “teacher” and “instruction”
A Anaphora
B Deixis
C Hyponymy
D Synonymy
Answer: Synonymy
#9. After supper, the wife asked the husband, “Should I get you some ice cream?”. The husband responded, “Am I diabetic?” What conventional maximum is violated?
A Manner
B Relation
C Quantity
D Quality
Answer: Quantity
#10. What can be said about a polite expression such as, “Can you give me a glass of water?”
A It is a non-literal locutionary act
B It is indirect illocutionary act
C It a direct illocutionary act
D It is an implied locutionary act
Answer: It is indirect illocutionary act
#11. In second language acquisition, what is the route to pidginization and fossilization of errors?
A Nativization and accommodation
B Denativization and assimilation
C Nativization and assimilation
D Denativization and accommodation
Answer: Nativization and assimilation
#12. Teacher Betty justifies the inclusion of grammar in her lessons. According to her it should be an integral part of the curriculum. What theories of second language acquisition explain teacher Betty’s justification?
A Accommodation Theory
B Communicative Language Teaching
C Monitor Model
D Nativization Model
Answer: Monitor Model
#13. Teacher Judy examines the reading selection that she will discuss in her class. She reads the selection to check whether the language and vocabulary might be too difficult for the students to understand? What theory explains this?
A Readability test
B Scaffolding hypothesis
C i + 1 hypothesis
D Emergent literacy
Answer: i + 1 hypothesis
#14. A Filipino family to the US. After 5 years, the child’s accent did typically Filipino. He did not learn the accent of the Americans. When his mother was asked why his son did not acquire the accent and facility to communicate in English, the mother responded, “he didn’t want to mingle with other children in the US. He always at home.” What explains this phenomenon?
A Monitor model
B Discourse Theory
C Nativization Model
D Accommodation theory
Answer: Accommodation theory
#15. Which of the following classes promotes the desired learning environment discussed in the learning-acquisition hypothesis of Monitor Model?
A Teacher Michael conducts a speech choir, emphasizing correct intonation and pronunciation.
B Teacher Judith teaches a substitution drills after discussion on grammatical structure.
C Teacher Lovely tells the class to write a letter following the correct format and structure.
D Teacher Ben shows a news clip from CNN and ask students questions
Answer: Teacher Ben shows a news clip from CNN and ask students questions
#16. The goals of this language teaching approach are learn grammar, vocabulary and culture. Teacher is the authority. He/She makes use of translation, deductive study of grammar, memorization of vocabulary. Which approach of language teaching described?
A Community language learning approach
B Grammar-translation approach
C Natural approach
D Direct approach
Answer: Grammar-translation approach
#17. When of the following does NOT justify the use of communicative language teaching?
A Within a social context, people need to perform certain task and functions.
B Students need to develop communicative competence as they enhance their linguistic competence.
C Within a social context, people need to develop their cognitive abilities through authentic texts and content in language.
D Students perform well in class, but they are unable to perform communicative task outside the classroom.
Answer: Within a social context, people need to develop their cognitive abilities through authentic texts and content in language.
#18. Teacher Mary learned in her graduate degree class that language learning could also be a result of cognitive processes, or the act of knowing something. Which of the is a result of this principle?
A Peripheral learning
B Content –based instruction
C Desuggestopedia
D Total physical response
Answer: Content –based instruction
#19. He is known as the Ruler of the Olympians and is respected as the protector of the Greeks.
A Zeus
B Poseidon
C Hades
D Hephaestus
Answer: Zeus